European Life

Les récits de Mme de Murat s’adressent à un public adulte, à même d’entrevoir derrière les voiles de l’humour ou du merveilleux, l’irrévérence et la transgression. Ce qui, dans sa vie réelle, suscite la désapprobation morale et sociale de ses contemporains (le choix de quitter un mari violent, de vivre seule à Paris, ses amours lesbiens) peut, dans ses fictions, se laisser dire, à travers les motifs récurrents du travestissement, du trouble de l’identité sexuelle, de l’inversion des rapports de domination entre hommes et femmes.

Ellen acaba de cumplir once años y cree haber cometido un acto atroz: ha suplicado a Dios la muerte de su padre. Su mayor deseo se ha cumplido, pero a cambio enmudece por temor al poder de sus pensamientos. Sus padres estaban divorciados, pero las visitas de su padre alcohólico y colérico se volvieron cada vez más recurrentes. Antes habían sido una familia feliz: su madre es una de las actrices más famosas de Suecia, un dechado de alegría, y su padre era un hombre... diferente.

PRIX RENAUDOT 2020. Le fils, c'est André. La mère, c'est Gabrielle. Le père est inconnu. André est élevé par Hélène, la sœur de Gabrielle, et son mari. Il grandit au milieu de ses cousines. Chaque été, il retrouve Gabrielle qui vient passer ses vacances en famille. Entre Figeac, dans le Lot, Chanterelle ou Aurillac, dans le Cantal, et Paris, Histoire du fils sonde le cœur d'une famille, ses bonheurs ordinaires et ses vertiges les plus profonds, ceux qui creusent des galeries dans les vies, sous les silences.

La vie n'est pas une comédie musicale. Une femme et deux enfants, un emploi, une maison dans un lotissement où s'organisent des barbecues sympas comme tout et des amis qui vous emmènent faire du paddle à Biarritz... Axel pourrait être heureux, mais fait le constat, à 46 ans, que rien ne ressemble jamais à ce qu'on avait espéré. Quand il reçoit un courrier suspect de l'Assurance maladie, le désenchantement tourne à l'angoisse. Et s'il était temps pour lui de tout quitter ? De vivre enfin dans une comédie musicale de Broadway ?

In this slim memoir, Theodor Kallifatides explores the interplay of meaningful living and meaningful work, and the timeless question of how to reconcile oneself to aging. But he also comments on worrying trends in contemporary Europe - from religious intolerance and prejudice against immigrants to housing crises and gentrification - and his sadness at the battered state of his beloved Greece. Kallifatides offers an eloquent, thought-provoking meditation on the writing life, and an author’s place in a changing world.

Kim Wall was a thirty-year-old Swedish freelance journalist with a rising career. Then, in the summer of 2017, she followed a story that led to an eccentric inventor in Copenhagen. Instead of writing the next days headline, she'd become one. As the bizarre events of Kim's murder unfolded, the world watched in shocked disbelief. For Kim's distraught parents, Ingrid and Joachim, it was a devastating personal struggle. In the ensuing months, day by grueling day, they had to come to terms with their loss, process the global media attention, and endure the investigation and trial.

After discovering her mother’s secret life, Cara doesn’t have much faith in marriage. So when the love of her life, Simeon, proposes, she struggles to say "I do." She adores him, but why risk the perfect relationship by signing on a dotted line that could ruin everything? If her parents’ marriage taught her anything, it was that a gold ring doesn’t equal happiness, and she has no desire to follow in their dysfunctional footsteps.

Tariq Khan is a Pakistani born and raised in Norway. An outsider in his own country - adrift between two worlds divided by class, race, and culture - he’s always been searching for home. Alongside a flock of other streetwise young men, each looking for direction and each easily susceptible, Tariq finds his cause in the Muslim revival. Idealistic, driven by faith, and empowered with purpose, he’s drawn to radical Islam - his last resort for achieving a sense of belonging. It’s only when he enlists in the war against Assad that Tariq’s eyes are truly opened.

It's 1978. Ponte, a small community in Northern Italy: peaceful woods, discarded rubbish, a closed-down factory. An unbearably hot summer like many others, wilted flowers and trips to the waterfalls. Elia Furenti is 16, living in a secluded house with his parents, a life so unremarkable that even its moderate unhappiness has been accepted as normal. That is until the day the beautiful, damaged Anna returns to Ponte and firmly propels Elia to the edge of adulthood. But then everything starts to unravel.

Scritto in risposta alla frase pronunciata dal ministro Depretis "bisogna sventrare Napoli!", il romanzo, scritto nel 1884, è molto più di un'inchiesta giornalistica. "Il ventre di Napoli" è un grido accorato di denuncia che conduce il lettore negli splendori e nelle miserie di Napoli, con le sue usanze e le sue tradizioni, laddove il degrado, la miseria e lo scempio non possono che generare rabbia e pietà.

"Coleshanger people are pretty bad," said Uncle Edward. "They won't cross water after sunset. And they have to be in bed by midnight, otherwise they think that they'll be turned into baboons and apes. They also worship the flea." Written in 1952, Coleshanger is a humorous, whimsical, and charming recount of English village life in the early part of the last century, a tale waiting 70 years to be heard but still very much the story of us today.

Throughout this audiobook, I will explore the best locations that Europe has to offer. This is not just any travel guide, but an eye into the life of these dynamic destinations. I will assist you and prepare you for your next European holiday. I aim to inform and inspire you to get the most out of your trip while taking you on an exciting journey through each of these 47 places I have personally visited.

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The opening story in this collection follows Vinny, Kevin, and a mourning family from Liverpool on a journey to Wales. What should be a simple trip turns into something much darker. A cross between Roddy Doyle and Ken Follett, this political storytelling meets you wherever you are on life’s journey, and stays with you.

A biography of Alexander Pushkin (1799 – 1837), who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Included is a brilliant work of the great Russian poet Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, "My Pushkin". Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades, de autor anónimo, es una de las mejores obras de la picaresca española. En ella, Lázaro de Tormes nos relata su niñez y su adolescencia, los diferentes amos a los que sirvió, y lo que aprendió en su lucha por sobrevivir. Una novela llena de crítica a la sociedad de su tiempo, de penas y alegrías...y, sobre todo, de ingenio. Literaudio te ofrece las obras cumbres de la literatura española e hispanoamericana en formato audiolibro.

A king was dying. An old man told his sons that the water of life would save him. Each one set out in turn. The two older ones, setting out in hopes of being the heir, were rude to a dwarf on the way and became trapped in ravines. When the youngest son went the dwarf asked where he was going, and he told him. The dwarf told him it was in a castle, and gave him an iron wand to open the gates and two loaves to feed to the lions inside. Then he had to get the water before the clock struck 12 when the gates would shut again.